Culture
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Vatican rebuts US protests over China deal
ROME — The Vatican has renewed a controversial agreement with China despite intense opposition from the U.S. government. Hannah Roberts…
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A magpie’s song that lifted the darkness: new opera tells potent tale
“But they sing, and sing to you. And that carolling is the most glorious thing.” Nick Miller WA Today In…
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France’s Macron vows to fight ‘Islamist separatism’
In a keenly awaited speech, Mr Macron said a minority of France’s estimated six million Muslims were in danger of…
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Umrah pilgrims return to a Mecca stilled by COVID-19 slump
Millions of Muslims from around the world usually descend on Saudi Arabia for the umrah and haj Islamic pilgrimages. MECCA-Reuters Hurriyet The…
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Ahead of the Jazz 100 countdown, here are 10 singers worth your time
And perhaps that’s fair: they have, after all, been the art form’s principal innovators. Andrew Ford The Music Show &…
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Exposing the ways we try to hide our inner selves
It made perfect sense. Nicole Abade Good Weekend in The Sydney Morning Herald I loved reading and language, and my…
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Charles Lloyd: Sharing a gift with a Greek goddess
Always a dreamer, he determined that he would find this beautiful woman and take her away from all the misery…
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Governing universities: tertiary experience no longer required
The sudden loss of international student fees due to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent court rulings of wage theft by…
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Commonwealth vows to stamp out fake Aboriginal art made in ‘sweatshops’
Long-running calls for stronger legal protection gained further support after a 2018 parliamentary inquiry found there was widespread evidence Indigenous…
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Bronze age Britons made keepsakes from parts of dead relatives, archaeologists say
Bronze age Britons remembered the dead by keeping and curating bits of their bodies, and even turning them into instruments…
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David Olusoga: racism in British TV has led to ‘lost generation’ of black talent
Systemic racism in British television has forced out a generation of black talent who quit because they were being ignored…
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The vertical split in Islamic world is complete
The emergence of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman aka MbS as the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia rapidly changed…
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Turkey’s Long Tradition Of Church Desecration
The world’s once greatest cathedral is now a mosque. Uzay Bulut The American Conservative On July 10, Turkey’s President Recep…
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Thessaloniki’s Jews: ‘We can’t let this be forgotten; if it’s forgotten, it will die’
Five centuries after they were expelled from Spain and eight decades after they were almost annihilated in the Holocaust, the…
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What the West can learn from Ukraine’s treatment of Soviet monuments
KYIV — Before Ukraine declared independence in 1991, statues of Vladimir Lenin were an inescapable part of the landscape. Veronika…
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Why imposter syndrome hits women and women of colour harder
Self-doubt and imposter syndrome permeate the workplace, but women, especially women of colour, are particularly likely to experience it. Why…
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